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Directory Dash
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This product is scheduled for launch
Launch date: Monday, November 23, 2026 at 08:00 AM UTC
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What Is Directory Dash?
Overview
Directory Dash is a free, single-page browser game (no install, no account) built as a satirical launch-week toy for people who have actually submitted a product to a directory before. Enter your own startup's domain and it becomes a cube that has to run, jump, and dodge its way through 10 fictional startup directories to get listed - fake red spikes for outright rejections, 1-star review stars, captcha blocks, cookie/newsletter popups, and slow pending review zones that stretch out the wait. It plays like a rage-platformer: quick deaths, short snarky rejection messages, instant respawn, dying is the fun part.
Key Features
- Type in your own startup's real domain and it becomes the cube you control.
- One tap, click, or any key jumps; hold to keep jumping. Works on desktop and mobile, no separate controls to learn.
- Checkpoints are on by default, an easier, forgiving run that respawns you near your last progress. Turning checkpoints off is the deliberate hard mode, a full run from zero, and finishing that way (nicknamed the miracle) gets its own rank, copy, and visual treatment.
- Every run, finished, given up, or left running overnight as a ghost attempt, gets a permanent shareable result card and link at directorydash.io/r/id, so a bad run is exactly as shareable as a good one.
- A live, public leaderboard at directorydash.io/leaderboard tracks Most Rejected Startups by domain, plus separate best-run boards with and without checkpoints.
- Share buttons post directly to X and LinkedIn, with a plain copy results button as a fallback for anywhere else.
Use Cases
Best fit: indie hackers and solo founders, people who have been through a Product Hunt or startup-directory launch before and will recognize the specific jokes, SaaS builders in the middle of a launch week, and the general maker crowd on Indie Hackers, r/SaaS, and Product Hunt.
Getting Started
No signup needed. Open directorydash.io, type your own startup's domain, and press any key or tap to jump. That is the whole onboarding.
Pricing and Plans
Free, forever, no account required, nothing to buy - there is no trial period or usage limit because there is no paid tier to trial. It is genuinely free with no upsell inside the game itself, and by design no player-identifying data is collected beyond the domain typed in and that run's score.
Made by Blastra
Directory Dash is made by Blastra, an AI tool that actually submits real products to real directories, so the game is the comic, safe-to-laugh-at version of a process Blastra does for real, for real founders. Nothing inside the game is a real directory and nothing is actually submitted anywhere; that is stated directly on the page so there is no confusion about what is fake and what is the real product behind it.
